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Boeing Black Smartphone Self-Destructs if Tampered

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the This-phone-will-self-destruct-in-five-seconds dept.

Papas Fritas writes:

"Reuters reports that Boeing has unveiled a smartphone that deletes all data and renders the device inoperable if there is any attempt to open its casing. 'The Boeing Black phone is manufactured as a sealed device both with epoxy around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with tamper proof covering to identify attempted disassembly,' says a letter included in the FCC filing. 'Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable.' Boeing's Black phone will be sold primarily to government agencies and companies engaged in contractual activities with those agencies that are related to defense and homeland security. The device will be marketed and sold in a manner such that low level technical and operational information about the product will not be provided to the general public. 'We saw a need for our customers in a certain market space.' says Boeing spokeswoman Rebecca Yeamans."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by MickLinux on Friday February 28 2014, @06:04AM

    by MickLinux (2659) on Friday February 28 2014, @06:04AM (#8395)

    This begs for a test, nothing! This begs for another Snowden!

    Mannings are NOT the way to go-- When Obama said he'd have the most transparent government ever, and introduced the Whistleblower Protection Act, our elimination of whistleblowers went through the roof.

    And we never addressed any of the problems or real criminals (so there's no controlling authority).

    If anyone didn't see that coming, they don't understand the word "transparent".

    But see this coming -- we're attempting to further empower the Watchers, and haven't figured out how to watch the watchers.

    Or maybe they now have a NEW (tm) secret (tm) Quantum (r) superkomputer (tm) that will Automagically Watch the users of this phone, and never have a shred of conscience past loyalty to ... umm... the presid... no, the director of natio...no, ummm, the director of technology at the NS...no, um, the software installation company's CEO?

    --
    The problem of the ugly American is not so much that people dislike Yanks, as it is that they dislike jerks.